Health Care - Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Care Flashcards
What are the levels of care?
Primary, Secondary and Tertiary
Which levels of care may you find a specialist?
All levels of care
Examples of each level of care
Primary (Family doc.), Secondary (dermatologist, optomologist (all in hospital settings), Tertiary - National/regional specialists (Sick Kids or Princess Margaret)
Define: Healthcare
It’s the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans.
What’s wrong with the health care system in Canada
Long wait times and not enough hospital beds, and not enough doctors
What problems with the health care system did Covid show?
The fact that many doctors were positioned to help Covid patients, patients with other illnesses did not get the medical care they needed.
What are advantages of full private (U.S.A)
Faster care, choose doctors, more privacy
What are cons of full private (U.S.A)
Not all get health care (poor people), more expensive, refuse to treat complex cases
What are advantages of full public? (U.S.A)
Everyone gets the same healthcare, and it’s more affordable
What are cons to full public? (U.S.A)
Longer wait times, fewer choices and higher patient loads for workers
What are the pros and cons of a blended system (Public + Private)?
Pros: More physicians, and people with more money = less wait times.
Cons: Rich get better care, and the poor won’t get the same care.
What are the three basic Health promotion strategies?
Enable, Mediate, and Advocate
Advocate
Advocating for favourable health conditions affected by political, economical, behavioural, social, cultural that are beneficial or harmful to health.
Enable
Reduce differences in current health status to enable all to achieve fullest potential in terms of health. Having a supportive environment to achieve
Mediate
Professional groups and social groups and health personnel have responsibility to mediate between interests that differ in society all for the pursuit of health.
